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Chapter 186: Persevere in the end

The 1985 All-Star Game will be held at the Dome Arena in Indianapolis.

The NBA All-Star Game originated in 1950. At that time, the NBA had just been in its fourth year, but it had already begun to suffer losses.

In order to make up for the losses of regular games and increase the popularity and appeal of the league, the NBA decided to select the best players from the East and West zones to compete in a matchup in the middle of the season.

This idea is not original to the NBA. In fact, the older baseball league MLB has already started organizing star competitions in the middle of the season.

The venue for the first All-Star Game was the ancient Boston Garden Plaza. As this event gradually became accepted and loved by fans, this star battle began to be held in various NBA cities.

But before 1985, the situation in the entire NBA was ups and downs, and by the 1970s, it was even worse. By the early 1980s, there was even a situation where the NBA Finals were not broadcast live!

Correspondingly, as an All-Star Game that reflects the popularity and popularity of the entire league, its charm is getting smaller and smaller, and even the stars themselves do not like to participate in such boring star gatherings.

Everything changed after Stern took office. In 1984, the NBA All-Star Game introduced a slam dunk contest, and the entire All-Star Game injected new highlights and vitality.

In the 1985 season, which is the full season in which Stern fully took over the NBA, the NBA All-Star Game also ushered in a freshman. Although it is still composed of the dunk contest and the All-Star Game, it is very different from the previous All-Star Games in many aspects.

The first difference that Gan Guoyang experienced was the endless publicity about the All-Star Game in recent days.

After Gan Guoyang was officially elected as the All-Star substitute center, from February 8, various publicity about the All-Star Game has been flooding Gan Guoyang.

Newspapers, TV, magazines, street banners, and any advertising method you can imagine can be seen in the NBA All-Star Game.

Gan Guoyang was not idle either. Nike seized this opportunity and captured Gan Guoyang in the studio to take a bunch of advertising photos and videos, warming up the promotion of his sneaker "Skyscraper".

Later, Gan Guoyang, Van der Wich and Drexler together - Drexler is going to participate in the dunk contest and headed to Indianapolis on February 9, where the All-Star Game will be held on February 10.

Of course, in addition to the two of them, there are also assistant trainers from two teams, as well as the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star team, Jack Ramsey.

Gan Guoyang is naturally a great contribution to Ramsey being the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star Game this season. From another history, if Gan Guoyang had not been able to have the results of this Trail Blazers, the current 34 wins and 16 losses, so Ramsey certainly could not have been the head coach of the star team - although the All-Star head coach was just going to play.

But Gan Guoyang still made Ramsey sweat because Gan Guoyang actually said in the game against the Knicks that he did not want to participate in the All-Star Game. Ramsey didn't even react at that time.

After the game, Gan Guoyang did not give Ramsey any chance to ask, and ran away alone early. This not only made Ramsey very angry, but also made him very surprised. How could Gan Guoyang suddenly look like this?

Fortunately, in the evening, Gan Guoyang called Ramsey, apologized to Ramsey, explained the situation, and expressed his willingness to participate in the All-Star Game, but because he was too nervous, his behavior was a bit abnormal.

Although this explanation is a bit far-fetched, it is barely acceptable. As long as Gan Guoyang is willing to participate in the All-Star Game, he will come and play, and it will be overwhelmed. In the eyes of an old coach like Ramsey, participating in the All-Star Game is a waste of life.

In comparison, for Drexler, the All-Star chick, this All-Star journey representing the glory of NBA players is particularly valuable. Even though he only participated in the dunk contest in the past, he was nagging all the way while sitting on the plane.

"Gan, what kind of dunk posture do you think I should use? What kind of dunk posture should I use? Will I jump from the free throw line? Or do I turn 180 degrees in the air? I don't know what kind of tricks Jordan will use." What bothered Drexler the most along the way was how he should detonate in the dunk competition.

"This is the 500th time you asked me Clyde. I told you, the 720-degree rotation body in the air and the big windmill under the crotch, I promise you can get the first place. Of course, you'd better start a three-point line and dunk with both hands. I promise that the championship trophy of the dunk contest in the future will be called the 'Drexler Cup', and then your actions will be imitated by countless players in the future, and your legendary deeds will also be widely praised among fans." Gan Guoyang couldn't stand Drexler's nagging and began to joke with him.

"Don't be so willing... At least you give me some advice. I don't want to lose to Jordan in the game again." In Drexler's heart, Jordan has always been his biggest competitor.

When Gan Guoyang saw Drexler's appearance, he wanted to tell him some of the dunk styles of later generations of dunk champions, such as letting him put a small underwear on his head as Batman - the bat looks like a glider.

However, when Gan Guoyang thought about whether Drexler would win the championship in the slam dunk contest, would it have an impact on history and eventually affect him?

When Gan Guoyang thought of this problem, he felt that his head was about to explode.

This is simply an unsolvable problem. No one knows how history should go, and no one knows what impact a small change will have on history.

For Gan Guoyang, although he traveled through time and space, Chris's deeds told him that a person like him who violated the rules of time was in an unpredictable crisis, and the complexity of changes in historical events had long exceeded his ability to understand.

Although Gan Guoyang does not know enough about the history of the NBA, judging from the recording left by Chris, the NBA history he mentioned after the death of "Gan Guoyang" is different from the history that Gan Guoyang knew in later generations!

Gan Guoyang remembers that the Trail Blazers entered the finals twice after 1977 and had never won the championship, but Chris said that the Trail Blazers won the championship in 1990, but there was no situation with Gan Guoyang.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang also knew that the Lakers should have had a consecutive championship in the late 1980s, but it did not appear in Chris's narrative.

However, starting from 1991, NBA history seemed to be back on track. Jordan won three consecutive championships, the Rockets won two consecutive championships, and Jordan Bulls won three consecutive championships, but I don’t know if their opponents are still those teams.

Chris seemed to be in a hurry, leaving only a recording and disappeared. Gan Guoyang had no idea how he left and where he was going, as a blind man.

The experiences of these two days were like a nightmare for Gan Guoyang. Everything originated from his impulse to drive home, but he didn't expect that he would escape and die later, and in the end it turned out to be like this.

"Can I follow Chris's words in the future, either retire and don't play basketball and be an ordinary person, or I follow the trend, watch these teams win the championship, and don't compete with them, so as to protect myself?" Gan Guoyang fell into a deep conflict, asking him to give up fighting for the championship and watch others win the championship, which is even more uncomfortable than letting him die.

For him, basketball is no longer a game, a five-player gadget, but his career, an inseparable part of his life.

To win and win the NBA championship will be his eternal pursuit on the road of life.

"Hey, Gan? Gan? What are you thinking? If you can't think of how to dunk, then forget it. It's normal to not think of your dunk level." Drexler looked at Gan Guoyang in a daze and began to stimulate Gan Guoyang with his clumsy aggression method.

"Hmph, I'm afraid you can't even do the dunk tricks I said. You have to know that you are a glider, not a helicopter." Gan Guoyang said disdainfully.

"Of course I can't do the 720-degree air-turning body and the big windmills you mentioned. What I want are the actions that can be achieved and normal players can do." In Drexler's mouth, his beastly physique became a "normal player".

Gan Guoyang thought about it and didn't care how normal he was, a "normal player", so he decided to help Drexler.

"Die it, die. If there is any accident, it depends on my life! Since I couldn't kill me that night, I think I can't die! I will do whatever I should do! Win the championship, MVP, score the king and rebounding king, I want to get the honor worthy of my strength!"

Gan Guoyang gritted his teeth and came up fiercely. He knew that there were some things that he could not escape anyway. Since that is the case, he still insisted on himself and continued on the road of basketball.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't know that after he came to this time and space, he did not just change history. On the contrary, many history started and contributed to it. This may be one of the reasons why he was able to be active in the world all the time.

As for why he died in another time and space, but now he survived, only God knows.

"Okay Clyde, I can teach you some tricks. At that time, I will let you participate in the dunk contest quickly. Even if you can't win the championship, you will be famous in history. Of course, you have to play well."

"No problem, as long as I don't let me do a 720-degree rotation body in the air and a big windmill with a crotch change..."

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Chapter completed!
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